Usually means: Hard, naturally occurring mineral matter.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. Stone, stone: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. stone, stone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stone, stone-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Stone, stone: Vocabulary.com
  6. Stone, stone: Wordnik
  7. stone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Stone, stone: Wiktionary
  9. stone, stone-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. stone, stone-: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. stone: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. stone: Dictionary.com
  13. stone (adj.), stone (n.), stone (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. stone: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Stone (Alice in Chains song), Stone (Chinese weight), Stone (Cyrus Villanueva song), Stone (Cyrus song), Stone (G.I. Joe), Stone (Imperial mass), Stone (TV series), Stone (UK Parliament constituency), Stone (band), Stone (comics), Stone (disambiguation), Stone (imperial mass), Stone (mass), Stone (measurement), Stone (surname), Stone (unit), Stone (weight), Stone, The Stone (Dave Matthews Band song), The Stone (album), The Stone (band), The Stone (blog), The Stone (music space), The Stone (online game), The Stone (video game), The Stone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Stone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. stone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. stone: Rhymezone
  19. stone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. stone: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. stone: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Stone: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. stone: Free Dictionary
  24. stone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Stone, stone: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. Stone: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. stone: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. stone: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. A Faulkner Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. STONE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Stone (disambiguation), stone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Stone (disambiguation), -stone, stone: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. STONE: Acronym Finder
  3. stone: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stone: Easton Bible

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. stone: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. Stone: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. stone, stone, stone, stone, stone, stone, stone, stone: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. stone: The Folk File
  3. Stone: 1960's Slang

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Stone: Backgammon
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Stone: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See stoned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
noun:  A small piece of stone, a pebble.
noun:  A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
noun:  (British) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight. Abbreviated as st.
noun:  (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
noun:  (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
noun:  (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
noun:  A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
noun:  (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
noun:  A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
noun:  (obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
noun:  (obsolete) A testicle.
noun:  (printing, historical) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.
verb:  (transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
verb:  (transitive) To wall with stones.
verb:  (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
verb:  (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
verb:  (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
verb:  (transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
adjective:  Constructed of stone.
adjective:  Having the appearance of stone.
adjective:  Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
adjective:  (African-American Vernacular) Used as an intensifier.
adjective:  (LGBT, slang) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
adverb:  As a stone (used with following adjective).
adverb:  (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).
noun:  (countable) An English occupational and habitational surname from Old English, for someone who lived near a stone worked with stone, from Old English stan.
noun:  (countable) A male given name
noun:  A placename:
noun:  A locale in England:
noun:  A village in Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell parish, Buckinghamshire, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7811).
noun:  A village in Ham and Stone parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST6895).
noun:  A village and civil parish in Dartford borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ5774).
noun:  A hamlet in Maltby parish, Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SK5589).
noun:  A market town and civil parish with a town council in Stafford borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9034).
noun:  A village and civil parish in Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO8575).
noun:  A locale in the United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in California.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Indiana.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Kentucky; named for coal businessman Galen L. Stone.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.
noun:  Ellipsis of Stone County. [One of 75 counties in Arkansas, United States. County seat: Mountain View. It was named after natural stone formations.]

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